skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Names of a namespace, yes, but standards were meant to be broken. It doesn't really matter what you based the hash on, it's up to the application(s), much like the type of UUID you choose.

The reason I like UUID better is (once you pick a version) it's simple. It already looks pretty readable and it's a well known widely-used standard. It would have been nice if the authors of this RFC had just expanded on UUID. People are also way too URI-obsessed; when are you going to pass this hashed URI to an application? IMHO an object reference should be just that and not involve application interfaces.

In terms of the hashing algorithms, (IIRC) unless you're using HMAC you're opening yourself to an (eventual) brute force and key reuse issue, or at the very least the potential for an implementer to ignore the need for a random salt and get either easy collisions or predictable table insertion. I would feel pretty nervous if the hashing algorithm was my SPF.
It's very likely that the liability policy that the landlord carries has an exclusion for the type of subletting that AirBnB does, putting all of the liability on an effectively uninsured landlord.
But the Windows UI version is and that is the default for Windows 8...
HBO and pretty much any major Network all have iOS apps.

HLS streaming can be protected, you can encrypt the chunks and decrypt on the player. Ironically enough for my previous job I built a HLS prototype solution that did exactly this... in the Flash Player.
Shapeshifters: Hands-on with Lenovo’s Windows 8 “tablaptops”
The headline did not end in a question mark.
I'm pretty sure those are just some tongue-in-cheek jokes, all in good fun
Windows is getting better and better.

I recently committed a website to a design review site. FLASH pages are not allowed any more.

These pages used to be called FLASH–award, now they are called CSS-awards, what comes next?
Yeah, that's why I didn't invest in Apple when my wife said we should. Now I'll never hear the end of it....
Here are some Redis hosting options, you tell me if this is affordable for a side project:

https://openredis.com/

http://redistogo.com/
It is relevant because the professor's hypothesis depends on the availability of "sufficient computing power" realized through "technological progress". Coming from a lay person (though obviously I didn't know that at the time my original comment was written) with the experience of modern day IT and exposure to magazine articles making wild claims about Moore Law and the like makes lots of sense.

I mentioned the Halting Problem as an example of Undecidability. We know that there are problems that cannot be solved by a computer, regardless of the resources such computer may have. The argument that we are a simulation would only apply if all observable phenomena in the universe are computable themselves (which is far from trivial to answer, but if I had to guess I's say those aren't). Of course, we could argue that whoever ran this simulation would have provided it with a simplified reality, including an underpowered form of computing... but that sounds rather suspicious to the skeptic in me.
I do have one very important question about your design. How does the UrbanDesk currently hold up to nasty, aggressive sex? On the bed? On the desk?

This might sound like a joke, and it is, but I'm also totally serious here. Sex is the critical secondary use of beds. Engineering a "smooth ride" seems like an important thing to consider. Google "West Elm bed frame" for some anecdotal evidence of what can go wrong.

Great work, either way. I can always appreciate some clever woodworking.
As far as i know apple will take 30% of what you make.
I'll be captain obvious here, but these also work great on OS X if you installed Git by a means other than homebrew. Thanks!
Help find a bright object on Mars
"Did MS just kill Flash?"
Being wrong is fantastic. You simply have to come to appreciate it. Every time you learn that you are wrong - and this applies for everything in life, not just with programming - you never have to be wrong in that way ever again. Not for the rest of your life, if you can remember, will you be wrong in that particular way. How amazing is that?

You're not 'focusing on the negatives', you're getting to be wrong, a fantastic opportunity. Most people don't get to be wrong. They persist in their wrongness and swim about in a sea of mediocrity with no sense of personal advancement. To get to be wrong on a regular basis is nothing short of exciting. Sure, others will misunderstand it. Managers and business types will not understand why you simply couldn't do everything flawlessly from the start and they'll try to give you a hard time about it. But it doesn't really matter. No matter how hard they push you, they can't make you think. No one can. It has to be undertaken entirely under your own will. And when you do so and come up with something wrong - you know you are actually guiding yourself to develop rather than stagnate.

Go on, be wrong! And then never be wrong in that way ever again!
I hadn't heard of infinality, but a quick search led me to http://www.infinality.net/blog/

Ironically, the website is quite hard to read, thanks to a kind of simulated macular degeneration effect of drop-shadow glow around each letter. It amused me.

I can't find many examples of the effect of the infinality patches, though. Is it just a single-axis hinter?
Nice rebuttal to my post from earlier today...
Begrudging 3% of profits is not absurd when it is in terms of risk. Imagine you paying 3% of profits on a 50/50 coin toss game. Even a single percent will teeter you to a losing proposition. Businesses do not make money every year, thus they want to be compensated with higher returns when they do make money. Unless the IRS compensates you during losing years, every dollar taxed demands that your odds of winning must be much higher. And, while there are loss carry-forward rules, it doesn't help your risk profile because it's game over if you hit bankruptcy by not having enough cash at hand to pay debts and expenses (and your assets get sold at a steep firesale discount).

Now, to be fair, we have no way of knowing if 3% is too much for his risk profile. It may or may not be. But, business risk is also difficult to estimate. As it is, it is difficult enough for the business owner. What chance does a bureaucrat who never owned a business or worked a normal job have?
> HBO and pretty much any major Network all have iOS apps.

What does that have to do with anything?
like totally noted, dude! :)
We don't have any support for materialized views at present, but they are on the list of enhancements to consider.
Flash can be downloaded and installed on Jellybean. Sure it doesn't come standard anymore, but it works just fine. Android is far from a flash free platform. In fact I'd say its still the superior mobile flash platform.

Its kind of crazy to me Google doesnt include Flash with jellybean when it works just fine. I'm all for killing flash asap, I hate it... but when it works... why deprive people of that bullet point feature?

Either way, its beyond false to call Android (even jellybean) a "flash free platform". You have to download and install flash on a desktop computer, just like you have to download and install Flash on Jellybean. Still works like a dream though.
>They'd refuse to drive you to the Bronx.
They already do. Routinely. And the best you can do is a 311 complaint, which feels somewhat dick-ish.

>A lot of the regulations that seem obviously protectionist now really weren't at the time they were implemented.

True. Somewhat analogous to the law of unintended consequences. One potential way to address this would be through the use of sunset provisions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_provision .
The downside of using sunset provisions would be the regulatory volatility given our (somewhat) hyperpartisan regulatory environment.

You can usually tell whether a regulation is obviously protectionist, by what the incumbents say about it. Incumbents are basically paid to say exclusively the things that improve their business prospects/competitive position/share prices. It's almost a fiduciary duty. As a consequence, when the a hotel company CEO complains about AirBNB or a medallion owner complains about Uber, you'll notice that they are usually asking for these services to be banned, (or regulated into uncompetitiveness) rather than regulated. In the example cited on the post - the duopolies never asked for the new service to be regulated to their standards - they simply asked to ban it. Even more egregious are moves like the DC City Council repeatedly trying to generate a whole new set of laws just to deal with Uber.

Anytime an incumbent objects to the illegalness or dubious legal position of a new service, you can pretty much bet its because they feel threatened. The fact that it happens to be in the "public interest" (in terms of the service doing something that's against today's law) is merely secondary.

> Regulations follows business as much as business follows regulations.

A lot of real insight in this comment. Regulations and laws are mostly what society agreed was allowable last time we decided to negotiate it. While we (as startups/consumers/businesspeople/engineers) should always strive to do the right thing, we should also remember that in many cases, the "right" thing can be considered illegal (if this wasn't the case, laws would never change to reflect society's current preferences).
Disclaimer: I haven't seen either of these guys for 15 years. However, I was at Origin in the early 90s, followed by Digital Anvil. Not everything we did turned to gold, to put it mildly, but Chris and Erin didn't rig demos.

If they're doing that now, I'll be astonished. It wasn't in our DNA as a company -- either company -- and that ethic came from the top.

We were well accustomed to competing with the latest rigged demo from any of several companies that are either entirely forgotten now, or remembered with a snarky chuckle. Our business was basically to ship what other people were promising... eventually, anyway. :)
Did you find that approach to be effective at all?

If you are decrypting on the player then the decryption key must be on the clients device. What is to stop them grabbing the key from memory and ripping the stream anyway?
Sure you can sue the AirBnB host, but individuals rarely have the money to pay judgments for serious damage or bodily injury, nor do they have insurance for such occasions. That's the whole point of renting in a reputable apartment complex--it pushes the responsibility and and liability for security in the common areas to the building management, an insured entity with the resources to pay for any resulting damages.

I think people who are proponents of AirBnB dramatically underestimate how much monetary value people attach to the kind of people they live around, especially in city apartment buildings where lots of people who barely know each other live in close proximity. A condo in a building that has some fraction of renters can sell for substantially less than an identical condo in an identical building that is 100% owner-occupied. Rents at buildings with 12-month minimum leases are higher than rents in buildings with 1-month minimum leases. People go out of their way to buy into coop buildings that have minimum down payment requirements, etc.

I live in an apartment in downtown Chicago. The major businesses in the area are Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University. Thus, most of the residents are medical residents, nurses, graduate students, etc. This tenant composition is priced into my rent. We have a lot of families that live here because it's a bit away from all the tourists on Michigan Ave and because every tenant undergoes a background check. If a bunch of tenants started illegally subletting their apartments on AirBnB to aforementioned tourists, that would upend everyone's expectations and decrease the value of the building to all of us.
UK!
It's absurd even without taking it to its logical conclusion.

There's no inherent value associated with what he does, the amount of money he "earns" is pretty arbitrary. The only way you can really judge it is by comparison to other people doing the same thing. You can compare to people doing other things, but this is at best an extremely crude measure, and borders on meaningless for people with extremely high incomes as he has.

Taxes affect him the same as anybody else, so there seems no basis for complaint there—he's not being singled out or treated unfairly—and given that at his income level, the amount he earns is almost completely arbitrary, there doesn't seem any basis for saying that he doesn't get what he "deserves."

In other words, despite his pathetic attempt to claim he's being "wronged," really he's simply saying that he wants moar money, and will threaten and browbeat people to try and achieve that end. Business as usual I suppose...
Not sure why this is "hot news" its been around for awhile. It was known as Stripe Apps before.
A Bedding E-Commerce Start-Up Cuts Out the Middlemen
Maybe you meant this by putting quotes around the word mobile, but this applies to IE10 on desktops as well; when running IE10 in Metro... I mean Windows 8 UI. In the official documentation [1] they refer to it as "Windows UI". I think it's a bit misleading to claim it only applies to "mobile" [sic].

1 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/jj193557(v=vs.85)...
How did you figure that its a $1000 value? You're providing 3 pages of text and graphics.

Can pitch decks produced on your site generate results? If you can point to even one success story with your product, your value goes up in my eyes, but right now it looks like and fluffy.
1) Apple takes a 30% cut of your price.

2) What you can make hugely varies. $0-$500k+/day for serious games. It is very skewed towards top earners.

3) You'll probably have an easier time selling and developing on iOS.
It is easy to cause the image to constantly expand and contract by leaving your mouse over the thumbnail. That makes it very difficult to use.
OT: Chicago, engineer, lawyer. Neat! (My office is in Printer's Row). Do you practice law, or are you in tech?
The benchmarks were JIT running time versus C compile time + runtime.

Not exactly apples to apples.
10 hours later, Google Patches Chrome to Plug Pwnium 2 Security Hole
First, running redis remote where you have WAN times involved is typically not the most performant. Second, if it's the cost, run it on a VPS where you'll get more memory for the money (hopefully the same VPS provider you use for other things).
... and I forgot to c/p the link from my tab like an idiot: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-mobile-emulator/.
Why do you say (3)?
In practice this mean that Linode offers 512MB RES/RSS memory (+swap) and Edis offers 512MB VIRT memory.

VIRT memory limiting is very a serious issue for some software. For example, apache may use 10x VIRT memory because it is threads-based (most linux'es reserve about 6-10M VIRT memory for the stack of each thread). VIRT memory is usually considered "free to allocate" and software (JVM, soft that uses mmap and so on) is written with this assumption. But this is not the case with OpenVZ VPS servers. Just run "top" to get an idea about VIRT and RSS memory usage of common programs.

It is exciting how this issue is not well-known. I even think that 91.318% of "apache is memory hungry" things (they are still partially true, but..) came from OpenVZ VPS benchmarks.

So in my opinion 20$ 512MB XEN is way better than 10$ 512MB OpenVZ because 512MB XEN is very different from 512MB OpenVZ.

P.S. my knowledge of OpenVZ may be outdated because I moved from OpenVZ VPS servers a couple of years ago.
First of all, take a weekend, go to some state park within easy driving distance of San Francisco, and spend the weekend hiking around the mountains by yourself. Have this question in the back of your mind, but don't deliberately dwell on it.

When you get back, flip a coin: heads you stay, tails you move on. You have your hand over the coin and are about to remove your hand... and in your gut, there will be a split second where you can sense your hope for either heads or tails.

Then ignore the actual coin toss, and do what your gut told you.

If it were me, I'd look for another job, but YMMV.
You can also just add important domains to Chrome's HSTS list: chrome://net-internals/#hsts
What BS. Why on Earth should games be sterilized down to ensure that all players receive an equal treatment? That's not how it works, not at all, because primarily: You can't control players, and players affect each other's experience.

But even past that, you seem to be saying that all MMO's should be designed for the lowest common denominator.

Why make guild raids when casual players can't get into top tier guilds?

Why make 40 man dungeon raids when casual players can't find groups larger than 5?

Why make the game have 80 levels when casual players, on average, will only reach 60 of them?

My real question is: Why punish avid gamers by condescendingly referring to their passion as unhealthy?

It seems to me that attempting to force every player into one paradigm is a great way to alienate everyone except players who that paradigm was designed for.

If you make a game that appeals to casual gamers -- do not be surprised when hardcore gamers skip it!

This is the beauty of the MMO: content for everyone and theoretically, the hardcore gamer's contribution to the game world will ripple out and affect other gamers, not only psychologically (I want to be that good) but materially, as they affect economies and other systems...
New domain search techniques at NameStation
Here's their website: http://www.doyouremember.com/
3% of profits would be one thing. But we're talking about his top marginal personal income tax rate increasing. (Obama's tax plan calls for lowering corporate taxes.) If he fires people over that, it would be a purely vindictive action. His personal income tax rate has no impact on the financial health of his company.
Only progressive delivery if you're talking about IE10.
Language that compiles to VimL
Here's Microsoft's Most Bullish Move in Years
Author here, let me know what you think, if you have any ideas, feature suggestions, derisive or sarcastic remarks, etc...
That was a great read. Thank you!
If my list gets too long for me to hold it all in my head, I'm too busy. Whenever I make a todo list, I forget it and find it weeks later with some items completed and the rest have turned unimportant.

How many hectic projects do you (or GP) have going at once? If you have too many to remember everything you have to do for each one, either you're too busy or they're not that urgent.

If a life goal (like learning Korean or Javascript or welding) isn't important enough to re-enter your head every so often (weekly, monthly, etc), then it's not important to your life, and tracking it is just wasting your time.

I used to use my inbox as my to-do list. After looking at month-old emails, I realized I didn't actually want to do/handle those things, so I archived the emails. Now, I'll write a todo list to sort everything out on paper, relax, then delete it. I'm as productive as I've ever been.
They really disabled Ctrl-c?
Yes. I liked that it had more about business drivers
It's rare to find a place to work at that you actually enjoy and like the people. You'll probably find every other job you get you will compare to your current one and realise that no matter how much money you're earning if your employer or team are rubbish it won't justify the cash.

Have you thought asking for a pay rise instead of considering to leave?
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It's great advice for people who have the autonomy to set their own to-do lists. If you have other people you're working for, it's difficult to say, "I couldn't remember to do it so I don't think it was worth doing."

It reminds me a lot of Mark Cuban's advice of never having a set schedule or meeting times. Great idea in theory and when you get to Atwood's or Cuban's stature it's a lot more implementable.
Apple gets yet another, broader slide-to-unlock patent
Because you can work on those side projects instead of spending time managing task lists.
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Somewhat OT and tin foil hat:

I was talking to a friend the other day about whether it was best investing time into getting really good at developing for the web vs native mobile/desktop.

My argument was that the big advantage of web dev was that you not only had more choice of backend tools but it was also the best way to get your apps to run on any platform including locked down ones without having to worry about app store policies etc.

His counter argument was that the browser is becoming the new target for malware etc especially as the new HTML5 APIs become more sophisticated. He thought that it might be likely that some browser APIs would become locked down by platform vendors. In other words if you want your web app to do stuff like WebGL/Local Storage etc you would need to be explicitly whitelisted by the OS or browser vendor. In which case there could be rules like "your web app cannot do xyz, your website must not have content related to abc".

Outright website blocking would seem out of the question, but perhaps things like this are the first sign of a move in that kind of direction?
A quote from that previous article I found very apt:

Jeff telling me I should stop using todo lists is like an [alcoholic] telling me to stop drinking. No, you should stop drinking, I should drink however much I like because I don't have a problem with it.

Different strokes for different folks. It's also funny how Atwood comes in and comments that, hey todo lists suck, but calendars with deadlines and research notebooks (catches for "someday" ideas) are okay. My next question, of course, is does he check his calendar every morning to see what to work on next ;)
I can't help thinking of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, which did not do well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Rasa_%28video_game%29

For the youngsters: they're both alums of Origin Systems, storied PC game developer and home of Wing Commander and Ultima.
I'm afraid the issue isn't all that clear.

There's some confusion of terms going on in this whole discussion. Traditionally, when people hear "desktop version", they think: "the version that runs on desktop and laptop PC, as opposed to mobile devices like tablets and phones." This distinction doesn't hold for Windows 8, because the "desktop" version of IE10 isn't alone on Windows 8. Windows 8 UI will run the "mobile" version (loosely speaking) of IE10.

Based on this, we have the following:

Windows UI | Desktop
================================+================
Tablet or phone : Affected | N/A
Desktop or laptop: Affected | NOT affected
I really hate the prolific use of the term cofounder around here. Everyone who "cofounds" a business is a "founder". Otherwise you're the "sole founder" if you honestly feel like making a big deal about it. A founder is a founder, whether there is one or many.
You know, we actually went away for a long weekend recently and talked about this very thing but couldn't come up with a decision.

I like the coin toss idea, I'm going to try it tonight!

Why exactly would you look for another job?
Nope. But he did demo some combat and completely failed to shoot down any enemies, crashed into his own carrier twice, and then got outrun by the enemies. I think a rigged demo would probably have gone a bit differently. :)
Right. IE 10 Metro being the mobile version of their browser.

It's true that it runs on desktops. But it's also true that it's primarily intended as the version of the browser that's used on touchscreen devices.
Very cool! I was in tech (wireless), now I'm doing the law firm thing for awhile.